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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoonew
Master director David Fincher leans on music-video stylistics in this disappointing adaptation.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-22-2011 |
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The Artistnew
A delightfully speechless tribute to the golden age of film.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
12-22-2011 |
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Spielberg's Adventures of Tintin is surprisingly funnew
With The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg remembers that even if you make a movie that isn't about that much, at least make it an exciting, awe-inspiring movie about not that much.
Tags: The Adventures of Tintin
With War Horse, Spielberg makes his WWI movienew
Steven Spielberg adeptly captures the transitional nature of the Great War, one of the last fought with horses and swords.
The American Girl with the Dragon Tattoonew
David Fincher's remake of Girl remains as cold as its Swedish winterscape, but the actors frequently appear to be mechanically hitting their marks, often in conspicuous proximity to product placement.
Review: 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'new
David Fincher's take on the first book in Steig Larsson's trilogy is dense, stylish and gripping. Be ready for some horrifying images.
Silence is Goldennew
A French kiss to Hollywood's golden age.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-22-2011 |
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Tags: The Artist
In Young Adult, Charlize Theron Doesn’t Want to Grow Upnew
A toxic spin on all of those cutesy chick flicks where career girls yearn for marriage, the latter film is the convention-busting story of semi-slovenly, semi-slatternly 37-year-old Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who is hellbent on busting up a marriage.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2011 |
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Charlize Theron Plays a Selfish Writer in Young Adultnew
This movie is about a stupid woman behaving very badly, and it's rebelliously free of redeeming values.
Tintin is Box-Office Goldnew
"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles."
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-14-2011 |
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Tags: Tintin
A Remake by Any Other Name: David Fincher Takes One for the Team
David Fincher can do a great re-make. Now, let’s hope he never does one again.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-12-2011 |
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Crowd-Pleaser Cameron Crowe Does the Thing He Does
Cameron Crowe casts a heart-warming cinematic spell that will milk many a tear from its widespread target audience.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
12-12-2011 |
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journeynew
A documentary on the man behind Elmo could've been a fluff piece. Turns out it's one of the year's best films and a heartfelt exploration of the creative process.
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
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